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“For an ordinary believer, it’s just
faith,” Meera Nanda told me. “They
don’t need to explain it. But there’s
a certain class of people coming up
that need to justify their faith, who
need to somehow intellectually put
into words why they believe. It’s more
of a disease of educated people.” In
other words, the same graduates who
seem to be turning to religion in
their droves are the ones who are
trying to rationalise it. These
educated Hindus aren’t just religious;
they’re desperately religious.

Worrying and true. And this isn't just educated young people trying to reconcile their religion with science. Right wing Hindu academics even tried to fake archeological evidence in order to prove Hinduism predates the Indus Valley civilisation. ('Horseplay in Harappa', Frontline, 17 (13 Oct, 2000)).

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